Connecticut western news., 1887-06-01
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Canadian and Imperial Governments will jointly survey the St. Lawrence River as far as Quebec.
 Cardinal Gibbons, after having been guest of Judgh ,Tishe at Ballindine, Ireland for several days, sailed for America. !
 -Tne Anarchist, Defuisseaux, has been ar rested at Msubeuge and conducted to Paris .-Dr. Billroth, who was recently reported to be seriously ill at Berlin, is pronounced out of dangers- '-PrincesSV Victoria of Battenberg, who has been suffefag from gastric fever, is recover -a-The situation in the Belgian mining dis tricts and elsewhere where strikes are taking place Is becopling more serious.
 The floods in Pennsylvania and southeast Hungary baye caused an enormous amount of damage, Iernesvar IS crowded with fugl- tives. Fifssillages and several towns are in
 A sepoybhot ten persons at Calcutta and afterward eon1mitted suicide.
 A dispatch from Paris says that M. Herf- cite, French Ambassador to Germany, ill his recent visit to Paris, brought an autograph letter from. Emperor William to President Grevy, in which the Emperor expressed the hope that the lives of neither mi ght be sadden- ed by the horrors of another war.
 Urgent business questions at Berlin have arisen in thesImperial foreign office, and Count Herbert Bismark, Imperial minister of foreign affairs who is at present visiting Earl Rose- bery in London, has been summoned to return to consider them.
 A deputation from the English iron trade is urging the Government to protest against the proposed increase of Canadian import duties on metals.
 Charles Merck, an aged German artist, committed suicide near Chattanooga, Tenn, by taking strychnine. His body was found in the woods two miles from the city.
 The Hon. Edward S. Tobey has been re- elected President of the Peace Society.
 Yellow fever is increasing at Key West. It was brought there from Havana in bedding. A panic has set in and many persons are leaving the place.
 Another supposed robber of the Missouri Pacific train at McNeil has been arrested. His name is Carpenter. His arrest was brought about by finding piece of newspaper bearing his printed address near the spot where the robbers stopped to divide the spells. Carpen- ter had s1OO in bills about him which bore marks of having been stitched and taken from an express package. Two other arrests were also made, making seven in all. It IS said the leader of the gang was an ex-clty marshal of the town of Round Rock, and that he is now in custody.
 A big haul of young counterfeiters from New York and New Jersey has been made at Portland, Me.
 -Dr. Thomas F. Rochester, a prominent and well-known physician of Buffalo, is dead, -Norcom l.. Seguin, manager of the Phila- delphia Umbrella Company, has embedded SS5, 900 and ran away. Gen. Duryee, the organizer of the Dur yee Zouaves, and afterward of the Fifth Zou- ayes, has been stricken by paralysis in New l York. He was twenty years Colonel of the | Seventh Regiment, and was police commits sioner. Gen. Duryee is in his 73d year.
 The Salvation Army has been forbidden | to parade the streets of Bethlehem, Pa., be- cause of its riotous conduct.
 The Bar Association of Dallas County, Ala, is strongly urging Gen. E. W. Pettus, of Selma, for the Supreme Court vacancy.
 A reunion of the Presbyterian churches North and South has been recommended by the General Assembly Committee.